couple jailed seven years for child abuse

couple convicted of a decade long campaign of abuse against their six children have been jailed for seven years in the United Kingdom.

The couple who claimed their kids were possessed by evil spirits, were found guilty after Coronation Street star Michelle Collins gave evidence against them.

They beat their children with brooms, hoovers and wires and even gave their baby a morphine overdose just days after her first birthday, Daily Mail reports.

Five of the children were finally rescued after their eldest daughter threw a heart-wrenching SOS note out of a window.

But it wasn’t until their one-year-old baby was given a morphine overdose over a year later that police reopened the case which led to their prosecution.

The plight of the children was so bad that Collins, who met them at a church lunch, took them to the cinema “because she felt sorry for them”.

She gave evidence as a prosecution witness during the trial of the parents, both 40, who cannot be named to protect their six children.